And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWeakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
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I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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